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I'm making butternut squash fries tonight for dinner (I already have them cut up and everything!) and I was wondering...to get the correct calorie count, should I weigh them before cooking or after? Before cooking they're much heavier as they are full of water, but after they're much less. This makes a SIGNIFICANT difference in the calorie total, and I was hoping you guys could help me out on this one.
I've scoured google looking for the answer, but I've found no credible source, and most of the forums I've seen are talking about meat, not veggies. Okay, well I hope someone can help me out here! Thanks!
(Oh and I've noticed that the calorie count (on this site) for baked butternut squash and raw aren't different--different amounts are listed, but it ends up being the same calorie to weight ratio, so I'm totally confused.)
I'm sorry - I'm not sure. I would think the calorie content would apply to the after cooking weight, but I can't be sure. I think you need the experts to "weigh" in. (Sorry, couldn't resit. :) )
you weigh them before always. Anything you cook you weigh before. If its frozen you follow the gram weight before you cook it. So for example a serving of frozen broccoli is 84 grams frozen(about a cup) But once you cook it it get lighter and mushier so if you measuerd a cup aferward you would be having more calories than the serving size.
The thing is that the calories listed on this site had a listing for cooked weight...is that not accurate? It was the same calories that they listed for uncooked too.
I guess I will start weighing before cooking, just to be safe. The calories will definitely not be over that way.
Thanks so much everyone for your advice!
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